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Week in Review

Good
morning. Another week gone in this fall season. It's hard to believe that Thanksgiving is next week. Although, the weather has been unusually cold here, so it does feel like fall. I'm hoping we have a warm-up by the end of next week so we aren't freezing while putting up all of our Christmas decorations on Thanksgiving weekend!

I'm still working through National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo), and I have managed to publish a blog each day. Over halfway done with this challenge!

Reading
I have been reading a lot this week! I finished Dangerous Denial
by Amy Ray and will be publishing my review for the tour tomorrow. I also read and reviewed The Giver
by Lois Lowry. And then I started reading The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad Book 5)
by Tana French, and I'm almost done! It's a very long book but I couldn't put it down this weekend. I just kept reading it and am dying to finish it when I'm done working today!

Kids Reading
I finally gave in and let C read The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins. He flew through it and is just about done with Catching Fire
too. I'm sure by next week, he will have finished the entire trilogy. In between, he also read the last two books in the How to Train Your Dragon series by Cressida Cowell.

I read In the Woods and I loved Tana French's lyrical writing but I was disappointed with the end so I have not read any further in the series. Looks like a great reading week for you and your son. Great job with NaBloPoMo. I missed Saturday so I really do hope we were able to take wknds off!

I feel the same way about the calendar - I was stunned this morning to see that it is already November 17! Seems like it was just Halloween - how can Thanksgiving be next week? Time always flies by this time of year. And Thanksgiving is late so Christmas will seem to come FAST - I have so much to do!

I am so impressed by your daily blog posting - good for you! And you seem to be reading a lot, too. That's record time for finishing a Tana French book - they're pretty dense.

I have hardly read at all in the last two months - which is very strange for me, because usually I read at least two books a week. I'm scared to log into goodreads and see how far behind my reading goal I am this year (and I'm pretty sure I will not be making it - sad).

But I do have a couple of YA books heading my way from the library that my daughter wanted to get approval on before she reads. Not that I read every book first, but some of those YA books can take quick turns into not-quite 11 year old territory, so I do tend to check them out first.

I totally understand your wanting to read some of the YA books ahead of time. I have tried to steer my 10 year old toward Juvenile Fiction instead of YA, but he's getting more into the YA lately. I finally gave in on The Hunger Games and I'm going to read Maze Runner soon so I can decide if it's okay for him.

Hi there Julie. My 12 year old girl read The Hunger Games when she was in the 4th grade but dropped the second book and did not pick it up again until she turned 12. She still didn't get much of what was going on particularly in the last two books, particularly Book 3, but she did enjoy the read.

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